Washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT -OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. FLETCHER, OF CORNISH FLAT, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,234, dated October 3, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. FLETCHER, of Cornish Flat, in the county of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful ImprovementinVashiug-Machines5 and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and operation ot' my said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specitication, in which- Plate l is a perspective view, and Plate 2 is a longitudinal view ot' a section thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in providing means whereby the beaters of a washing-machine may be made to work at any desired distance from the end otl the washing- ,boX, and thereby adapting them to the numslotted blocks and the rear end of the washing box or frame is a space about eighteen inches (more or less) on which said blocks may be moved. I attach brass bands to the top of the rear end of said box or frame, which extend across the said space to the rear end of said slots. The front ends of said bands rest ou said blocks, and suitable screws pass through them and through said slots into the sides ot' the washing box or frame, as represented ou Plate l by the letters B B B. This arrangement of screws ruiming through slotted movable blocks enables the operator to adjust the beaters at the proper distance from the end ot' the washing-box, and thereby adapt it to the number and sizes of the clothing to be washed.

The letterC on Plate 2 represents aset-screw, which I usein forming the connection between the double cranks. This set-screw C serves to adjust the double cranks in any desirable positioi1,and therehy'regulates the movements ot' the bea-ters at the will ot' the operator.

The beaters are kept in their places by means 4of upright swinging posts attached thereto rebined, and arranged substantially as described,

for the purposes specified.

BENJAMIN S. FLETCHER. Xfitilesses:

SYLvEsTEE DAvIs, C. M. DAvIs. 

